This documentary explores a period when dinosaur evolution reached its most unusual and unpredictable phase. During the Cretaceous, environmental pressure and competition produced creatures with ...

For a long time, the prevailing theory was that dinosaurs were already in decline before the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons These ancient arthropods were thriving hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs, and they kept their design through every mass extinction that followed. A hard shell, a ...

One of the most surprising effects of the cascade of changes was...fruit? One of the most surprising effects of the cascade of changes that played out in the wake of dinosaur extinction may have been ...

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Chris Doughty, an associate professor in NAU's informatics department, was writing a paper for a conference and had the idea to test a theory about sauropods, forests and fruit. Doughty created a ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...